Shōwa

昭和

Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

4,593 total Shōwa Period 1926 – 1989
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Former Kakihara Shoten Storehouse B
Saitama 昭和前
Former Kakihara Shoten Storehouse B

A 1930 earthen storehouse at a Chichibu silk wholesaler's, 5 by 2 ken, with clay-packed double doors on its entrance and every window. It stands beside Storehouse A.

Former Koshundo Clinic Storehouse
Saitama 昭和前
Former Koshundo Clinic Storehouse

The storehouse of the Former Koshundo Clinic in Minano, Saitama, built in 1934, has stepped plaster doors and a fan relief on its gable, and once held medical gear.

Former Saitama Prefectural Textile Industry Testing Station Chichibu Branch Factory Building
Saitama 昭和前
Former Saitama Prefectural Textile Industry Testing Station Chichibu Branch Factory Building

The 1934 workshop of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu joins a sawtooth shed and a gabled dye shed in a clapboarded L, now part of Chichibu Meisenkan.

Former Saitama Prefectural Textile Industry Testing Station Chichibu Branch Warehouse
Saitama 昭和前
Former Saitama Prefectural Textile Industry Testing Station Chichibu Branch Warehouse

The 1930 warehouse of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu, now Chichibu Meisenkan, has a ventilation roof and a corridor whose roof wraps three sides.

Former Saitama Prefectural Textile Industry Testing Station Chichibu Branch Main Building
Saitama 昭和前
Former Saitama Prefectural Textile Industry Testing Station Chichibu Branch Main Building

The 1930 office of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu, now Chichibu Meisenkan, pairs an Ōya-stone base with an outsized Wright-style porch.

Former Nakamura Family Residence Stone Storehouse
Saitama 昭和前
Former Nakamura Family Residence Stone Storehouse

An early Shōwa rice store of Bōshū stone on a headman's estate in Koshigaya, Saitama, with a stone cornice and timber frames keeping rice bales off the damp walls.

Former Honjo Nakamachi Post Office
Saitama 昭和前
Former Honjo Nakamachi Post Office

Built in 1934 by the Moroi family, postmasters here since 1872, this Honjo landmark wraps a Japanese timber frame in tile and Art Deco lines on the old Nakasendo.

Koike Tobacco Store
Saitama 昭和前
Koike Tobacco Store

Wooden shop-house of the early Showa era on a corner of Bamba-dori, the approach to Chichibu Shrine, with a rounded, ornamented street front; now a cafe.

Former Kodama Water Tower
Saitama 昭和前
Former Kodama Water Tower

A 1931 reinforced concrete water tower in Kodama, Honjo, Saitama, designed by prefectural engineer Miyahara Yujiro. Now a time-signal tower, registered in 2000.

Kondo Dental Clinic
Saitama 昭和前
Kondo Dental Clinic

Kondo Dental Clinic in Chichibu, Saitama: a 1927 wooden surgery and home in an L-shape, half-timbered with rough render facing the street, Japanese-style behind.

Former Sakata Clinic
Saitama 昭和前
Former Sakata Clinic

Former Sakata Clinic in Menuma, Kumagaya: a 1931 reinforced-concrete obstetric clinic faced in scratch tiles, with Art Deco lamps and early Showa medical equipment.

World Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Saitama 昭和中
World Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

A 1954 concrete memorial on Mount Taikan in Ogose, Saitama, registered in 2020, enshrining remains of the unidentified dead, with a curved ossuary and fluted front.

Taiyoken
Saitama 昭和前
Taiyoken

Taiyoken in Kawagoe, a restaurant building of about 1929, recalls the rebuilding after the Kanto earthquake with an expressionist corner and pointed window.

Takioka Bridge
Saitama 昭和前
Takioka Bridge

A 1928 eight-span steel girder bridge carrying the old Nakasendo over the Koyama River in Saitama, registered in 2008, with granite parapets and brick abutments.

Tokyo Golf Club Clubhouse
Saitama 昭和中
Tokyo Golf Club Clubhouse

Clubhouse of 1963 by Antonin Raymond at the Tokyo Golf Club in Sayama, Saitama, with log posts and beams and a lodge-like lounge round a fireplace; members only.

Nagase Masafumi Family Residence Main House
Saitama 昭和前
Nagase Masafumi Family Residence Main House

A foundry family's house of about 1938 in central Kawaguchi, Saitama, its hip-and-gable pantile body fronted by a projecting Western wing in glazed tile.

United Church of Christ in Japan Shimamura Church Shimamura Megumi Nursery School Annex
Saitama 昭和中
United Church of Christ in Japan Shimamura Church Shimamura Megumi Nursery School Annex

A 1953 timber nursery building in Fukaya, Saitama, across the prefectural border from its parent church in Gunma and modeled on the main school. Registered 2008.

Honda-Ryu Senshin-Do (Takagi Dojo) Kyudo Field
Saitama 昭和前
Honda-Ryu Senshin-Do (Takagi Dojo) Kyudo Field

A registered wooden archery hall in Kuki, Saitama, built around 1932 by the physician Takagi Tasuku, with arrow-feather window bars and bow-curved ceiling battens.

Honda-Ryu Senshin-Do (Takagi Dojo) Matoba
Saitama 昭和前
Honda-Ryu Senshin-Do (Takagi Dojo) Matoba

Target house of a private archery range in Kuki, Saitama, built around 1932 and registered in 2023. Fourteen square metres, open at the front, an earth bank inside.

Maze Dam
Saitama 昭和前
Maze Dam

Maze Dam in Honjo, Saitama: a 1937 concrete gravity dam, 126 m long and 28 m high, with a timber house on its intake tower, built for the Kodama irrigation canal.